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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:38 am
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brotherdave wrote:
Another reason is NOBODY can stop me, no matter how much they complain!

Those low frequency waves travel for a VERY, VERY, VERY long way, and are hard to stop. They just keep sneaking through whatever gets in their way, and come out on the other side.

That's how elephants communicate over long distances -- ultra low frequency sounds.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:47 am
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slidewaysracing wrote:
That's how elephants communicate over long distances -- ultra low frequency sounds.


And don't forget USN submarines.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:50 am
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SILLY ME! Of course I knew that. I have a special place in my heart for subs, since my first duty station was the sub base in Connecticut.
I'll have to be careful, or my "Sailor Girl" designation will be revoked.
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:39 am
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My first duty station was the USS Montpelier (SSN 765). After this tour on Guam, attached to the USS Frank Cable (AS 40, a sub tender), I intend to go back to the sub fleet, to an SSBN. What'd you do in Rotten Groton?

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:31 am
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(Sorry to re-rail this - you 2 submariners can get back to your underwater conversation momentarily :wink: )

It was the sound of the electric bass that did it for me. One track, more than any other? 'Goin' Home' from the Stones' 'Aftermath'. Wyman's tone just got inside me somewhere. I HAD to find out how to do that. The rest is, however obscurely at times, history :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:22 pm
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I was a lowly E-3, working in the food storeroom at the BOQ (pretty easy duty compared to what most of my friends were doing). It was a pretty area of the country, and I enjoyed my time there. Even the base itself had some beautiful areas. This was quite some time ago, and women were just beginning to serve on support ships. Otherwise, I would have liked to have been on a sub. Got a tour of a fast attack, but not a boomer. Good memories for me! :D :D :D

You are now being returned to the originally scheduled program, "Why do you play bass?"
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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:41 pm
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Getting into this thread a bit late - too much to do and not enough hours to to it in... but -

By the early summer of 1964, I had been taking tenor and baritone saxophone lessons from a master in the woodwind crafts for many years already. He had taken me as far as I could go with classical, traditional lessons and I had been refining my jazz saxophone style for a couple years and was a member of a jazz band. I had been dabbling in Fender bass for a year or so as well. One afternoon, the phone rang and we found out that the bassist for the group had been injured critically in a motorcycle accident. Since I was the only one with any bass experience, I shelved the saxophones and became the group's bassist almost overnight. I was self taught on bass, but because of my formal musical training, it wasn't difficult to listen to a selection and work out the bass line in just a couple minutes. After several months of playing bass with the group, I decided that I'd probably never go back to saxophone because of the fairly limited number saxophone players needed in the area where I was living at that time. But bassists were always in demand, so I practiced diligently and for the past 48 years, I have enjoyed the bass and have given it a predominant place in my musical life.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:03 am
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The leader of my last band was a submariner. I used to joke that he was the drummer in the onboard parades. And my lady friend's late older brother was not only a bass player, but a submariner, too. Me, I was a tanker in the army. Just as cramped as a submarine, but less danger of drowning.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:38 am
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I was just a little kid, maybe six or seven, when I was given an old beat up acoustic guitar that was missing the "B" & high "E" strings. Not being musically inclined and being pretty broke, my folks wouldn't buy me a new set of strings. So I just started plucking away at the guitar, as is. Since we're talking about the late fifties and early sixties, doowop music was very big at the time. The bass singers always caught my attention for some reason. So I just picked out the melody that the bass singer was singing while listening to the radio. Eventually, I got pretty good at figuring out their parts. Eventually, I'm thinking about 1962, I picked up a used Teisco bass for about $25 and I never turned back. I play bass, guitar, piano, drums and organ but bass is my primary instrument. My wife always wants to know why I have four bass guitars. I tell her it's because I don't have five yet.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:56 pm
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My wife always wants to know why I have four bass guitars. I tell her it's because I don't have five yet.

EXCELLENT ANSWER! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:40 am
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Haha.You beat me to it.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:53 am
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To Live!!! It brings me peace and serenity. I started with violin, and as I got older (taller) I switched to string bass. I found that while there can be multiple violins, viola, cellos, the bass holds a special place in the orchestra. The other instruments can number in the dozens in an orchestra, yet there is rarely more than 2-3 string basses. As I learned the value of the bass to the music and the orchestra, I fell in love.

I learned to play bass guitar to play in the schools' big band. Now it was up to the drummer and I to hold the beat, and set the pace for the music, now I was hooked.

As I learned more, and listened more, now I hear the bass in everything. And I love how vital my chosen instrument is to the music.

Guitar players get people to go ooooh and aaaaah. But the bass player gets the girls on the dance floor!

Victory to the Bass!!!


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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:27 am
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Outlining chord structure while driving the rhythm so folks will shake their money makers. Seriously, I have always loved instruments of the lower frequencies. The tuba, double bass, pedals on an organ, bass trombone, etc...Ultimately the Fender Jazz or Precision bass was my instrument of choice.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:34 pm
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Outlining chord structure while driving the rhythm so folks will shake their money makers. Seriously, I have always loved instruments of the lower frequencies. The tuba, double bass, pedals on an organ, bass trombone, etc...Ultimately the Fender Jazz or Precision bass was my instrument of choice.

Cool! My teacher has me really practice the arpeggios for the different chord types so that I can outline the chords, as you say. And we're working on inversions -- starting on the 3, for example, instead of the 1 or 8. And the music I like best makes you move.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you play bass?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 7:33 pm
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Ok, I'll take the photos with posts. You practice hard girl. As for your original question; I've been playing bass SO long I never thought of playing anything else! I list myself as a hobbist because until I play on a nit record I'm NOT a musician. Anyway I like to see the ladies appreciating the bass. Wish my wife did but she lets me buy nice pieces & SHAKE the hell out of the house!


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